Transgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPS
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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We are children for a very long time.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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You write to find out what you believe.
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